Blackandbritish6/22/2023 ![]() It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. ![]() It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.ĭrawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan 'blackamoors' and the global slave-trading empire. ![]() Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize. Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees' Award. ![]() Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Black and British: A Forgotten History | By David Olusoga ![]()
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